[Mono-list] DirectX 9

[Amish Munshi]

Hello Sijmen,

It is very essential to have a port of DirectX, I am not a graphics
person and I cannot help much with any technical clarifications on
your thoughts. But Games are definately required on Linux.

Amish.



On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:05:35 +0100, Sijmen Mulder <sjmulder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've recently been running around the game programming on .NET scene,
> which does interrest me to a great extend. As you might have noticed
> from the title, this post is about DirectX 9. As some of you might
> know, I have had plans to re-implement DirectX 9, or parts of it, on
> Linux/Mono - which proved impossible for me at that time. So then I
> started working on ManagedGL.
> 
> ManagedGL has learned me quite a few things about wrapping and such.
> After seeing the rise of Tao, and learning more and more about Windows
> Forms (which has tight connections to DirectX 9), I thought I could
> give a new try - only the graphics and input parts.
> 
> Here are my plans:
>  - Take Tao.OpenGL as back-end binding;
>  - Use native Win32 code to setup an OpenGL context on SWF controls;
>  - Add support for an SDL provided OpenGL context beneath Direct3D, so
> Direct3D can be used on Linux to without too much overhead;
> - Not a slow and planning aproach. I'll take one saturday or another
> free day to start up and write as much of the basic implementation as
> possibel;
> - Use many libraries if possible to take work out of my hands.
> 
> Yeah, I know it's abitious, and I might not even come to the point to
> start, but I just wanted to get some comments on the idea.
> 
> --
> 
>  'May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you
> and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you
> his peace.'
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> je, en Hij is je genadig. De Heer bedenkt het goede voor je, en geeft
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> 
> Sijmen Mulder
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